The body in front of Mars was slowly starting to glow everywhere. Then the light transferred to the man lying on the ground and changed its properties. At one time his body turned pitch black, then red, shrunk and grew, getting faster with every change. It nearly pulsated and finally emitted the same light that was lighting up the room before. With a satisfied grin did the standing man snap his fingers causing a soundbreaking sound that echoed in the black space causing Mars to wake up and a system announcement to play.
... CONGRATULATIONS - GAINED SKILLS - SHARPENED SENSES (passive: You are more aware of your surroundings by pushing your physical senses to your limit, even hearing quiet sounds hundreds of meters away and gaining almost an vision that is equal to eagles.), LAST STAND (passive berserk: Activates automatically, when you are in a perilious situation. Your blood and energy stream will flow with such speed and strength almost exceeding your own limits, turning your body into a black red colour and experience a growth of muscle mass making you more resistant to outer attacks and letting you replenish your energy by absorbing it (conversion rate = 50%), you also earn better control of your energy circle and your Physical Stat raises by 30%), NATURAL FIGHTER (passive: By internalizing the concepts of your own body and martial arts, you are able to gain new insight with each level up, raising your Resistance and Physical Stat by 1 every 3 levels.), ENERGY WAVE (active: By combining your Energy and Physical Core, you are able to send a massive wave of destruction out of your limbs, destroying everything that is in its way (energy consumption scales with energy output and can be controlled, minimum consumption = 100 units) ... REMAINING SKILL POINTS : 0 ... ADAPTATION COMPLETE ...
Mars stared at the man in front of him with an open mouth, asking with an enraged and irritated tone "What did you do to my Skill Points?" "I picked the best Skills for you, remember? We have just a month or less to get you to a formidable state." "But... but my points and what about the shep-" "That guy was controlled by his own rage, otherwise your measly Illusory Space would have never worked. So let us go into your Mind Space and how about you test some things out?"
Before Mars could complain again Space warped and a white open Space appeared before their eyes. Mars had no choice but to obey his orders.
"Remember what I first told you?" "The Mind Space is my greatest weapon?" Mars's Physical Core slowly disintegreated leaving a black fog with gray eyes in its place. The fog then compressed itself into a humanoid gas form and continued speaking. "Yeah, that is still the most important thing, you mustn't forget. Let me show you something." The fog raised its arm and a black sword with purple lightning cricling arround it appeared in his hand. - WHOOSH - One swung and there were clearly cracks and empty nothingness visible in the white space that seemed unbreakable. "Try fixing it." "How?" "Use your imagination." The gas man stayed silent after these words and just waited for Mars to repair it. At this moment Mars felt a suction coming from the cut, draining the Space of its energy and colour. If Mars didn't do something, his whole Mind Space would get sucked into some unknown place and Mars with it! He couldn't abandon earth and his family like that!
The only way to save them is probably by gaining enough authority and letting them dismiss the reset-plan.
As Aurelius just stood there, seemingly undisturbed by this process and not willing to help, Mars had to think of something. Suddenly a patch made out of Mind Force appeared before Mars. "Hm, nice idea but still too floppy, think of something else." But after coming in direct contact with the other space did the patch just vanish into little strings of Mind Force that were now scattering around but quickly drained as well.
Fo his next try did Mars raise his arms and forcefully opened the energy pores releasing his gas like Void Energy that quickly assembled at the tear trying to forcefully weld both sides together. "That will still not be enough." As if on command the tear just absorbed the energy the moment it has touched the sides.
The Space was clearly infiltrated by now, even showing signs of breaking down. Seeing the flaws of both he combined them creating a tape out of black insides and invisible sides letting them come into contact with the right source and attaching itself on the cracks, patching them up.
There was no more suction and the Mind Space slowly stabilized itself. The patch was now integrated into the Space looking down at them.
Only then did Aurelius move again. "Beautifully done. Personally I would have just used my influence on this Space and forcefully closed it, but creativity is also an ability." After looking at Mars again did he continue. "But you have to be careful, your Energy Capacity is still decreased and easily exhausted. If you can't control your energy output there is no use to having a high reservoir. That will be the next step on your path, so I will let you try to find a solution for it yourself. You already have an Affinity with the Void, so just think of it as a part of yourself.... I have to leave you alone now. Otherwise I am found out, but I know you can do it without me." As the fog disappeared, Mars was able to see a satisfied smile on its face. Mars already had Advanced Energy Veins so his control of the energy inside him was relatively easy, the hard part was to close his energy pores after using enough power or to just let out a small portion.
After countless tries and Mars' Energy Capacity reaching the bottom, did he finally control the regeneration and closing of his energy pores.
... CONGRATULATIONS - AQUIRED SKILL PARTIAL REGENERATION (active: You are able to control the flow of Energy in your body to such an extent that you can use it to close wounds and regenerate body parts to a certain extent.) ...